Course Content

To become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack, you will validate your ability to perform these tasks:

Understand and work with director-based deployments

Use identity environment files to connect to the undercloud

Use identity environment files to connect to the overcloud

Use template files, environment files, and other resources to obtain information about an OpenStack environment

Work with containerized services

Configure OpenStack domains

Create projects

Create groups

Create users

Manage quotas

Create resources

Create virtual machine flavors

Add existing images to an overcloud

Create security groups

Create key pairs

Configure networking

Create and assign networks to projects

Configure network routers

Configure software-defined networks

Work with Open Virtual Networks

Configure floating IP addresses

Configure an instance to use a floating IP address

Configure a service to be accessible via a floating IP address

Manage block storage

Create a block storage volume

Attach block storage volumes to an instance

Snapshot a storage volume

Work with Red Hat® Ceph Storage

Configure Ceph storage

Monitor Ceph Storage

Diagnose and troubleshoot Ceph Storage issues

Work with object storage

Create a Swift container

Utilize a Swift container

Work with shared storage

Create shared file systems

Configure instances to use shared file systems

Manage instances

Launch instances

Associate instances with specified projects and networks

Use key pairs to connect to instances

Configure an instance during deployment

Create a Heat stack

Create a Heat template

Diagnose and correct a broken Heat template

Launch a Heat stack

Work with images

Modify an existing image

Create and associate flavors to customized images

Launch an instance from a customized image

Launch an instance on a second compute node

Work with OpenStack services

Manage Identity Service tokens

Enable tracing in RabbitMQ

Display statistics using Ceilometer

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

Exam format

This exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat OpenStack skills and knowledge. You will be asked to perform a number of systems administration tasks focused on configuring and administering an OpenStack cloud and will be evaluated on whether you have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that you must perform tasks similar to what you will perform on the job. This exam consists of one section lasting 4 hours.

Scores and reporting

Official scores for exams come exclusively from Red Hat Certification Central. Red Hat does not authorize examiners or training partners to report results to candidates directly. Scores on the exam are usually reported within 3 US business days.

Exam results are reported as section scores. Red Hat does not report performance on individual items, nor will we provide additional information upon request.